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DECORUM AND ORDER <br />To help conduct the business of the City Council in an orderly fashion, the City <br />Council has adopted rules pertaining to Decorum and Order. The City Council will <br />strictly enforce these rules in order to allow full expression of ideas and opinions by <br />citizens, staff or legal counsel. The rules are summarized below: <br />Unauthorized remarks from the audience, stamping of feet, whistling, clapping, <br />yelling, and similar demonstrations shall NOT be permitted by the Presiding <br />Officer. Any disrupting demonstrations shall be cause for the Chief of Police <br />to clear the Council Chambers or to remove individual offenders upon direction <br />of the Presiding Officer. <br />Any person who verbally attacks other individuals, groups, or City Officials, or <br />otherwise becomes boisterous while addressing the Council, or while attending <br />the Council Meeting, shall be ruled out of order by the Presiding Officer. If <br />someone begins to make impertinent or slanderous remarks, the Presiding <br />Officer (or the City Manager or City Attorney at the direction of the Presiding <br />Officer) will instruct the person to follow the Council Rules. If the person does <br />not cease, the Presiding Officer will instruct the Chief of Police to remove the <br />person from the Council Chambers and bar him/her from further audience <br />before the Council. <br />2 <br />F E 9 2 2 1993 <br />